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16. The HSGP is a resource among a
limited pool of funding for the
development of new and sustained
capabilities. Given the limited funding,
how do you prioritize building new
capabilities versus sustaining existing
capabilities? A complete answer would
provide examples.
17. The HSGP contains an element of
the State Homeland Security Program
(SHSP) that provides the legislative
requirement to subaward at least 80% of
state funds to local units of government.
Do you believe this an adequate
measure to help ensure that funds are
properly invested for building
capabilities? If not, why not?
18. What suggestions do you have for
proper alignment and balancing of
SHSP funds to build capabilities?
19. What can FEMA and DHS do to
help ensure law enforcement needs are
met while also balancing the needs of
other state and urban area grant
recipient stakeholders such as fire and
emergency management?
20. The Law Enforcement Terrorism
Prevention Activity (LETPA) program
imposes a minimum spend requirement
on law enforcement terrorism
prevention. How can FEMA and DHS
refine LETPA requirement to ensure
state and local capabilities to prevent
terrorist attacks are being supported?
21. What can FEMA and DHS do to
ensure campus law enforcement
agencies understand how to access the
Homeland Security Grant Program
funding, to include Urban Area Security
Initiative funding?
22. What can FEMA and DHS do to
simplify the grant requirements for
applicants and recipients to enhance the
Operation Stonegarden Grant Program?
(3) Urban Areas Security Initiative
Program
The Urban Areas Security Initiative
Program is subject to the evolving and
expanding threat landscape. Threats
faced by the nation have changed
dramatically over the last twenty years,
becoming more dispersed in nature and
often carried out by a single individual
or small groups using very simple
tactics. As a result, risk is no longer
concentrated in the largest urban areas;
the risk to smaller urban areas has risen,
as well.
23. The Urban Areas Security
Initiative Program must address this
new threat environment, both in terms
of eligible urban areas and risk-based
funding allocations. Please provide your
input on how this can best be
accomplished without undermining the
progress made over the past 20 years in
building capacity to prevent, protect,
and respond to terrorist acts.

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(4) Emergency Management
Performance Grant (EMPG)

notice do not bind FEMA to any further
actions related to the response.

24. Do you find the current EMPG
work plan template preferable to the
previous narrative format?
25. How much does the 50% cost
share/match, which requires that the
federal share applied toward the EMPG
Program be no more than 50% of the
total budget, factor into the State
Administrative Agency’s ability and
approach to pass through EMPG funding
to subrecipients?

Deanne Criswell,
Administrator, Federal Emergency
Management Agency.

C. 2021 Request for Information Follow
Up Questions

[OMB Control Number 1615–0017]

FEMA released an RFI in April 2021
to receive input from the public on
specific FEMA programs, regulations,
collections of information, and policies
for the agency to consider modifying,
streamlining, expanding or repealing in
light of Executive Order 13985,
‘‘Advancing Racial Equity and Support
for Underserved Communities Through
the Federal Government’’, among
executive actions. The questions in this
Simplifying FEMA Preparedness Grants
2023 RFI expands on the 2021 RFI
feedback, and explores opportunities to
identify and redress potential inequities
in how partners access, apply and
receive preparedness grant funds.
The 2021 RFI identified areas for
improving the NSGP Investment
Justification (IJ) process. As another
example, one commentator suggested
that communities that meet the small,
impoverished community definition
could use simpler forms or receive
direct assistance from FEMA staff or
FEMA-hired contractors to prepare the
grant application.
1. What steps can FEMA take to
improve the application process for our
preparedness suite of grant programs?
2. How can FEMA better engage with
underserved communities about
national preparedness initiatives and
grant programs?
3. Are there entities that are excluded
from preparedness grant programs that
could meet the priorities of one or more
programs and provide a benefit to their
community? Please provide the name of
the grant program(s), entity type and
how they can support a priority of the
program(s).
4. How does your organization
capture data on underserved
communities serviced with
preparedness grant resources?
FEMA notes that this notice is issued
solely for information and programplanning purposes. Responses to this

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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND
SECURITY
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration
Services

Agency Information Collection
Activities; Revision of a Currently
Approved Collection: Application for
Advance Permission to Enter as a
Nonimmigrant
U.S. Citizenship and
Immigration Services, Department of
Homeland Security.
ACTION: 30-Day notice.
AGENCY:

The Department of Homeland
Security (DHS), U.S. Citizenship and
Immigration Services (USCIS) will be
submitting the following information
collection request to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
review and clearance in accordance
with the Paperwork Reduction Act of
1995. The purpose of this notice is to
allow an additional 30 days for public
comments.
DATES: Comments are encouraged and
will be accepted until October 10, 2023.
ADDRESSES: Written comments and/or
suggestions regarding the item(s)
contained in this notice, especially
regarding the estimated public burden
and associated response time, must be
submitted via the Federal eRulemaking
Portal website at https://
www.regulations.gov under e-Docket ID
number USCIS–2008–0009. All
submissions received must include the
OMB Control Number 1615–0017 in the
body of the letter, the agency name and
Docket ID USCIS–2008–0009.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
USCIS, Office of Policy and Strategy,
Regulatory Coordination Division,
Samantha Deshommes, Chief, telephone
number (240) 721–3000 (This is not a
toll-free number; comments are not
accepted via telephone message.). Please
note contact information provided here
is solely for questions regarding this
notice. It is not for individual case
status inquiries. Applicants seeking
information about the status of their
individual cases can check Case Status
Online, available at the USCIS website
at https://www.uscis.gov, or call the
SUMMARY:

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USCIS Contact Center at 800–375–5283
(TTY 800–767–1833).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

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Comments
The information collection notice was
previously published in the Federal
Register on May 8, 2023, at 88 FR
29685, allowing for a 60-day public
comment period. USCIS received one
comment in connection with the 60-day
notice.
You may access the information
collection instrument with instructions,
or additional information by visiting the
Federal eRulemaking Portal site at:
https://www.regulations.gov and enter
USCIS–2008–0009 in the search box.
The comments submitted to USCIS via
this method are visible to the Office of
Management and Budget and comply
with the requirements of 5 CFR
1320.12(c). All submissions will be
posted, without change, to the Federal
eRulemaking Portal at https://
www.regulations.gov, and will include
any personal information you provide.
Therefore, submitting this information
makes it public. You may wish to
consider limiting the amount of
personal information that you provide
in any voluntary submission you make
to DHS. DHS may withhold information
provided in comments from public
viewing that it determines may impact
the privacy of an individual or is
offensive. For additional information,
please read the Privacy Act notice that
is available via the link in the footer of
https://www.regulations.gov.
Written comments and suggestions
from the public and affected agencies
should address one or more of the
following four points:
(1) Evaluate whether the proposed
collection of information is necessary
for the proper performance of the
functions of the agency, including
whether the information will have
practical utility;
(2) Evaluate the accuracy of the
agency’s estimate of the burden of the
proposed collection of information,
including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used;
(3) Enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected; and
(4) Minimize the burden of the
collection of information on those who
are to respond, including through the
use of appropriate automated,
electronic, mechanical, or other
technological collection techniques or
other forms of information technology,
e.g., permitting electronic submission of
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Collection

DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND
SECURITY

(1) Type of Information Collection:
Revision of a Currently Approved
Collection.
(2) Title of the Form/Collection:
Application for Advance Permission to
Enter as a Nonimmigrant.
(3) Agency form number, if any, and
the applicable component of the DHS
sponsoring the collection: I–192; eSAFE; USCIS.
(4) Affected public who will be asked
or required to respond, as well as a brief
abstract: Primary: Individuals or
households. The data collected will be
used by CBP and USCIS to determine
whether the applicant is eligible to enter
the United States temporarily under the
provisions of section 212(d)(3),
212(d)(13), and 212(d)(14) of the INA.
The respondents for this information
collection are certain inadmissible
nonimmigrant aliens who wish to apply
for permission to enter the United States
and applicants for T nonimmigrant
status or petitioners for U nonimmigrant
status. CBP has developed an electronic
filing system, called Electronic Secured
Adjudication Forms Environment (eSAFE), through which Form I–192 can
be submitted when filed with CBP.
(5) An estimate of the total number of
respondents and the amount of time
estimated for an average respondent to
respond: The estimated total number of
respondents for the information
collection I–192 is 61,050 and the
estimated hour burden per response is
1 hour and 11 minutes; the estimated
total number of respondents for the
information collection e-SAFE is 7,000
and the estimated hour burden per
response is 56 minutes.
(6) An estimate of the total public
burden (in hours) associated with the
collection: The total estimated annual
hour burden associated with this
collection is 78,549 hours.
(7) An estimate of the total public
burden (in cost) associated with the
collection: The estimated total annual
cost burden associated with this
collection of information is $17,522,875.

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration
Services

Dated: September 1, 2023.
Samantha L Deshommes,
Chief, Regulatory Coordination Division,
Office of Policy and Strategy, U.S. Citizenship
and Immigration Services, Department of
Homeland Security.
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Agency Information Collection
Activities; Revision of a Currently
Approved Collection: Application To
Register Permanent Residence or
Adjust Status
U.S. Citizenship and
Immigration Services, Department of
Homeland Security.
ACTION: 60-day notice.
AGENCY:

The Department of Homeland
Security (DHS), U.S. Citizenship and
Immigration Services (USCIS) invites
the general public and other Federal
agencies to comment upon this
proposed revision of a currently
approved collection of information. In
accordance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995, the
information collection notice is
published in the Federal Register to
obtain comments regarding the nature of
the information collection, the
categories of respondents, the estimated
burden (i.e. the time, effort, and
resources used by the respondents to
respond), the estimated cost to the
respondent, and the actual information
collection instruments.
DATES: Comments are encouraged and
will be accepted for 60 days until
November 7, 2023.
ADDRESSES: All submissions received
must include the OMB Control Number
1615–0023 in the body of the letter, the
agency name and Docket ID USCIS–
2009–0020. Submit comments via the
Federal eRulemaking Portal website at
https://www.regulations.gov under eDocket ID number USCIS–2009–0020.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
USCIS, Office of Policy and Strategy,
Regulatory Coordination Division,
Samantha Deshommes, Chief, telephone
number (240) 721–3000 (This is not a
toll-free number. Comments are not
accepted via telephone message). Please
note contact information provided here
is solely for questions regarding this
notice. It is not for individual case
status inquiries. Applicants seeking
information about the status of their
individual cases can check Case Status
Online, available at the USCIS website
at https://www.uscis.gov, or call the
USCIS Contact Center at 800–375–5283
(TTY 800–767–1833).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
SUMMARY:

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